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Issue 40 | January 2023

Meet the Team Credits Editorial: Do You Not Remember? Interview Speculative Fiction and the Magic of African Literature: A Conversation with Stephen Embleton Fiction The Bridge across Inkar Ravine Soyinka’s…

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Credits

PUBLISHER Nzube Nlebedim PHOTOGRAPHS & ART Oluwatobiloba Amida PRODUCTION Nzube Nlebedim COVER POSTER DESIGN Fortrex Design (Peteru Ogunjinrin) COVER IMAGE CREDIT Stephen Embleton

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FOUNDING EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim FICTION EDITOR Nzube Nlebedim POETRY EDITOR Chidiebube onye Okohia NONFICTION EDITOR Orji Victor Ebubechukwu ART & PHOTOGRAPHY Oluwatobiloba Amida GRAPHICS AND DESIGN The Shallow Tales Media…

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Do You Not Remember?

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.” — Aeschylus The question, “Don’t you remember?” is an easy route to memory. But whether we ask this question or not, we must…

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Poetry

The Slide | Omidire Joshua Idowu

a brother slides back into the mire. thunder strikes. teeth clack; tongues wiggle. he stands naked at the eye of today’s sermon’s vortex. this is what the lamb’s wife does…

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Blue Moon on the Tongue | Emman Usman Shehu

A blue moon is not found in a mouth that harbours a tongue restlessly showcasing the voice it orchestrates where there are ears or not within a listening distance.…

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Poetry

Lagos Boys, Rat Race | Adedokun Ibrahim Anwar

In Lagos, bodies roam with worries on their tails like predators after their prey. In hawking sachets of water, every sweat that drops traces a line back to the…

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Poetry

We Could Have Phrased Goodbye Differently, & We Love in Transit | Kuln’Zu

We Could Have Phrased Goodbye Differently I am having a relationship with a sentence that blooms unsure with summer heat, it asks: what if? Cold mornings, bird-songed early in…

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Poetry

A Language We Do Not Speak | Fatihah Quadri Eniola

After the sleep of the hibiscus, the world opens its hands to sunshine – Romeo Oriogun In the house where the children now paint white with the consistency of joy,…

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Fiction

Mortality Rings | Rabi’atu Yakubu

The bulk of my mortality rings are gone! I wish I’d heard the thief last night, I’d have screamed until my neighbours intervened. Rings confirm my productivity and value to…

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Issue 40 | January 2023

Credits

Meet the Team

Do You Not Remember?

The Slide | Omidire Joshua Idowu

Blue Moon on the Tongue | Emman Usman Shehu

Lagos Boys, Rat Race | Adedokun Ibrahim Anwar

We Could Have Phrased Goodbye Differently, & We Love in Transit | Kuln’Zu

A Language We Do Not Speak | Fatihah Quadri Eniola

Mortality Rings | Rabi’atu Yakubu

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